The Nation's Image
Subtitle: French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521529433
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Opera; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; History; History - General History; Europe; Europe - General; History / Europe / General
First sentence: IT WOULD HARDLY be a novel proposition to claim that Auber's La Muette de Portici was a seminal work in the history of opera in nineteenth-century France.